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Submission + - Bart Simpson making Robo-calls for Scientology (thrfeed.com)

Submitted by SpuriousLogic on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @06:36PM

SpuriousLogic writes: Scientologist Nancy Cartwright, who does the voice of Bart Simpson on "The Simpsons," has recorded a message in the voice of the iconic animated character promoting the controversial quasi-religious organization.
Cartwright recorded the pitch (audio below) for a robocall to boost turn-out for a Scientology event at the organization's Hollywood center. Though she takes care to identify herself by her real name and not her character, she uses the Bart voice at a few points in the recording.
"This is not authorized by us," said "Simpsons" executive producer Al Jean. "'The Simpsons' does not, and never has, endorsed any religion, philosophy or system of beliefs any more profound than Butterfinger bars." (Okay, it's not Jean's wittiest line).

Comment Re:OOXML (Score 1) 284

by the_denman on Monday October 13, 2008 @01:01PM (#25357709) Attached to: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here

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Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections 275

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, 2008 @02:24PM from the yes-but-food-is-cheaper-elsewhere dept.

ashitaka writes "KDDI has announced that they will be launching a 1Gbps Internet service to single-family home and condo users in October. The service is supposedly synchronous, with 1Gbps in both directions, although the article implies that speeds will vary with location. Cost will be 5,985 yen/month (about US$56.50) for the basic Internet and IP phone service. This is intended to compete with NTT, who currently control over 70% of the Japanese FTTH market."

Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support 231

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 27, 2008 @12:17PM from the enjoy-your-rights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So, you thought you did well to support the fledgling music industry by purchasing your tracks legally from the Wal-Mart store? Well, forget about moving these tracks to a new PC! Since they started selling DRM-free tracks last year, there's no money to be made in maintaining the DRM support systems, and in fact, support is being shut down. Make sure you circumvent the restrictions by burning the tracks to an old-fashioned CD before Wal-mart 'will no longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.' Support ends October 9th."

Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free 166

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 26, 2008 @11:52PM from the it's-not-a-bug-it's-a-feature dept.

webax writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "[An Adobe security hole] exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience. 'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier ... The flaw rests in Adobe's Flash video servers that are connected to the company's players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected computers. The software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players." webax also notes that the article suggests DRM as a potential solution to the problem.

Submission + - A New Video Chat Service: TokBox (techluver.com)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @03:32AM

Tech.Luver writes: "A Web start-up, TokBox, wants to do for live video chats what YouTube did for video watching. Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here's how it works: you sign up and we give you a link. When you want to talk with anyone, just give them the link — they click and you chat. Free video calling from any website. The company makes it easier for you to put your TokBox on your social network profile, blog, or personal webpage. Anyone can come to your page and see a "Push to Talk" button. They click it and connect to you in real time using live video and audio. ( http://techluver.com/2007/10/31/a-new-video-chat-service-tokbox/ )"

Submission + - Google Sets Up Social Networking Platform (techluver.com)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @02:36AM

Tech.Luver writes: "Google is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader's brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook. Although Google confirmed its plans late Tuesday, its new social networking platform won't be unveiled until later this week. On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write programs for Google's social network, Orkut, as well as others, including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning. Google hopes to build a one-stop shop for software developers who create tools that make it easier to share music, pictures, video and other personal interests on social networking sites like Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace.com. ( http://techluver.com/2007/10/30/google-sets-up-social-networking-platform/ )"

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